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Investigate and share your experiences of LIFE and what LIFE it is all about.

Why am I here? - Who am I? - Why am I the one I am? - How have I become the one I am? - What has gone before? - Why did I choose this and not something else? - When did I make this choice? - What am I? - Where do I come from? - Where will I go after this life?"

What is life about?Posted by Erik Istrup 11 Feb, 2014 18:56:52I may, at some point in my
life, ask myself the question: "Why am I here?" I find out quickly
that in order to find answers to the question, I must know myself and the
question: "who am I?" that pops up. After exploring myself, comes the
question: "Why am I the one I am?" It leads to the question:
"How have I become the one I am?" meaning, what has gone before? I
begin to examine my life from my birth and finds out that most of what I am
derived from "external" influences and my thoughts and feelings.

Maybe I can, based on this,
answer the question about why I'm here; why I am born and live? I can be
content with the answer, but I can also ask the question: "Why did I choose
this and not something else?" This issue starts a whole new quest in my
life. However, if I know that life is determined in advance, what we call fate,
of course, I have not made a choice. If there has been a choice, it comes from
a higher place, maybe defined as God, even if "God" not necessarily is
defined.

Where does this choice come
from? And last but not least: When did I make this choice? If I have come to
the conclusion that I am my body, thoughts, and feelings, I'll be able to find
the answer as being the moment where I chose my career or anything like that.
If I, in my analysis of who I am, have come to the conclusion that the body,
thoughts, and feelings are only a part of myself, I must necessarily search
elsewhere after the origin of this choice. If I am not only the new-born child
who has grown up and been to the person as I am today, I must have existed
before birth. This leads to the questions: "What am I?" and
"where do I come from?" So the question: "where I come
from?" will instinctively lead to the question: "Where will I go
after this life?"